The book Medical Contributions to the Study of Evolution was written by author J George John George Adami Here you can read free online of Medical Contributions to the Study of Evolution book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Medical Contributions to the Study of Evolution a good or bad book?
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And, carrying this objection to its ultimate end, "you conceive," say the critics, " that the leucocyte is endowed with intelligence so that it recognizes in the microbe a foe to the organism ; scents it from afar ; hunts, seizes, and digests it, and then, its duty ADAPTATION AND INFLAMMATION 163 done, its mission in life fulfilled, it withdraws its pseudopodia, and dies contentedly." It is needless to say that we hold no such views regarding the intelligence of the leucocyte. At the same time ...we unhesitat- ingly regard inflammation as purposeful, every whit as much as we regard the iris, with its contraction and dilatation under different intensities of light, as subserving a purpose, or the acts of feeding and digesting as being with purpose. Inflamma- tion is a physiological process in so far as it is the calling into action, in response to accustomed stimuli, of properties normally possessed by the tissue ; it is a pathological process in so far that, while the stimuli are in kind not different from normal stimuli, in intensity they are greater.
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